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O. A.cEsver paraue ana demonstration OF
trades unionists and their sympathizers in
New York city
10. One thousand sailors struck at San
Francisco owing to differences with the ship
ping agents.
ID. All the laborers and Alechanics oE
Charleston, s. c., struck for an increase Of
wages, which was denied The men there
upon resumed work.
% Four hundred and fifty brownstone
rubbers struck in New York city against the
employment of a non-union man.
OCTOBER.
Z. Armour's beef packers at Chicago were
ordered to quit work.
q Eight thousand pork packers of Chicago
struck for eight hours.
z The general assembly of the knights OF
Labor organized at Richmond and admitted
the Home club
who have been out on strike for seven months,
have returned to work.
Is. The great strike of the Chicago packing
house woriKInen rs at an end, the men having
agreed to return to work on the ten hour plan.
20. National assembly of the Knights OF
die. Grand Master Workman Powderly's
salary was increased TO $1,000 from 1.500.
Other salaries raised accordingly
%. The convention of the National Brother
hood of Engineers, at New York, unani-
mously reelected r NJ. Arthur, of Cleveland,
grand chief engineer
%. The condemned Chicago Anarchists
have beeen granted supersedeaa. This oper.
ates as stay Of execution.
NOVEMBER.
/. The striking miners at Shamolsin, Pa,
decide to resume work. The painters and
paper hangers Of Haverhill, Mass, struck for
nine hours.
T. The Paterson molders' strike was ended
by the bosses granting the increase de-
g. The Augusta, Ga, cotton min strike is
at an end. The mill owners yield.
g. Twenty thousand Chicago pork packers
again quit work.
%. Three thousand six hundred bottIers, of
struck against proposed reduction of 8 per
cent. in their wages.
%. The strike of the tanners and curriers'
of Salem and Peabody, Mass, has failed.
DECEMBER.
z. Strike in Breeds shoe shops at Lynn,
Mass, 700 persons went out.
II. The conference of trades unions at Col
umbus, o., adopt the name of "The American
Confederation of Labor"
10. The Brooklyn Knights of Labor object
to the payment OF a contribution of 81 each
toward purchasing hall in New York
q. The employees of the Eureka Iron COM
pany, at Oxmoor, Ala, quit work on account
of a compulsory school tax.
%. Several of the Brooklyn surface roads
tied up. Settled same day, after some blood
she'd
%. One thousand two hundred dissatisfied
employees at the coal wharves Of the Reading
road in Philadelphia, struck. Unless the de-
mands of the men are granted, %, 900 knights
of Labor will 60 out shortly.
27.-Masked cable car strikers in San Fran
cisco attack a car and drive the passengers
from it.
27.-Itis reported that SO, 900 machinists viii
leave the Knights of Labor unless granted
National Assembly charter.
%. Dynamite found in the cable road tm
mel in San Francisco
%. District assemblies Knights of Labor OF
ten states will soon sond request to Grand
Master Workman Powderly TO caF a special
session of the national assembly. This be-
cause of Powderly's ordering Chicago packers
strike "of, p his ordering money subscribed to
the anarchist fund returned, and to rescind
action Of the Richmond convention Using
officers salaries.
-. Strike on Reading railroaa
-. Knights Of Labor pic
dam released from confIr
significant movement in
the knitting mill owne1a
was feature of the VI